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Reading Primers R0 & R1  [Back to Top]

R0 gives your learner practice with the five basic vowel sounds and spellings found on Chart 0. Once these sounds and signs are mastered, R1 provides practice for nine new sounds with 20 new spellings. Learners also begin to read simple sentences, and are well prepared to begin decoding the 59 sounds and 400+ spellings in the English language.

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Reading Primer R2  [Back to Top]

Building on the work accomplished in Reading Primers R0 & R1, Reading Primer R2 gets your learner in prime shape for reading the most common spellings in English. Besides the dozens of new sounds and spellings, students will also get a chance to read paragraphs and short stories for the first time.

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Reading Primer R3  [Back to Top]

In this final primer book, your learner will practice all 59 sounds and 400+ spellings in the English language. Even the most rare and peculiar spellings are explored here, giving students all the tools they need to become master readers and spellers. Students will also learn about proper capitalization and punctuation on their way to becoming excellent writers.

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Workbook 1   [Back to Top]

Each of the seven worksheets consists of eight types of challenges that will have students drawing, transforming words, and writing creative sentences. Student Workbook 1 starts at the beginning of Reading Primer R1 and finishes at the end of Reading Primer R2. Your learner will hop from beginning to read, to learning the basics of grammar, to expressing themself through writing.

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Workbook 2   [Back to Top]

Each of the seven worksheets in Student Workbook 2 contains 16 different exercises. Students will have the opportunity to practice their reading and comprehension skills by drawing pictures, matching sounds, writing creative sentences, and discussing pages from their Book of Stories. Student Workbook 2 takes students all the way through Reading Primer R3 and all 59 sounds and 400+ spellings in the English language.

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Book of Stories   [Back to Top]

A hybrid between storybook and textbook, Book of Stories is for use with the Words in Color family of literacy materials.  Learners begin by decoding simple sentences involving few combinations of sounds and spellings. The book progresses to include full paragraphs with punctuation, capital letters, and the most common of the 400+ sound-spellings in American English. Even the trickiest words are made meaningful through the down-to-Earth stories of family life.

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Teaching with Words in Color: Lesson Guides, Techniques, Games   [Back to Top]

This book is an introduction to teaching with Words in Color, and will guide you through how to teach all the sounds and spellings found in Reading Primer R0 & R1. In the first section, you will be introduced to some basic characteristics of the approach, and given some simple activities to help get familiar with the materials. The second and third sections will take you through Reading Primers R0 & R1— introducing appropriate teaching techniques and games along the way. The fourth section is a toolbox of teaching techniques and games for various levels of reading, which you can use during R0 & R1, or afterwards into Reading Primers R2 and R3.

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Reference Guide to the Fidel Phonic Code   [Back to Top]

The Reference Guide to the Fidel Phonic Code provides a link between the sounds and spellings on the Fidel, and those on the Word Charts. This book will help you find where specific sound-spellings are located on the Word Charts, or where the first instance occurs, or just provide an example of a particular spelling. You may find this book useful in lesson planning as well as finding words on the appropriate Word Chart during a lesson. We recommend you use this guide with the Color Key for the American English Fidel.

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The Common Sense of Teaching Reading and Writing   [Back to Top]

Reading and writing are taught to everyone but not all learn them. Still almost everyone learns to speak and express oneself. By using the powers that ensure mastery of the spoken language it becomes easy to make everyone into a good reader and speller, and a good student of the printed heritage of one's culture. Such an approach is Common Sense as Caleb Gattegno shows in this book.

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Teaching Reading with Words in Color: A Scientific Study   [Back to Top]

In this reprinted edition of Caleb Gattegno’s 1967 book Teaching Reading with Words in Color, teachers are guided through the science and practicalities of using this revolutionary literacy approach. From using a pointer to tap on the charts to studying structures with the use of grammar cards and other materials, Gattegno paints the picture of a well-rounded Words in Color classroom. Although the materials have been updated over the years, this guide still speaks to the heart of this learning-centered approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling.

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The Science of Education Pt. 1: Theoretical Considerations   [Back to Top]

In this first part of the three-part Science of Education series, Gattegno introduces the Subordination of Teaching to Learning and the science behind successful learning. He challenges traditional teaching methods, which rely on the memory of students, and proposes educating the awareness of students instead. He asks teachers to know "that they are persons with a will and that their students are persons with a will, and that in an individual, the will is the source of change."

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Words in Color - American English   [Back to Top]

Leo Color - Spanish   [Back to Top]